Mr. president, delegates,
Since the beginning of civilization Generations have witnessed and inherited the only conflicts of wars But behold the marriage supper of the and the bridegroom onto his bride shall the earth's children know the true expression of one love Then mother earth shall in peace. Forever eliminating the aspirations, lust and anguish of wars and of wars, Selah!
See it deh know the innocent going up in And propaganda spreading inna the Sunday not even coulda save you with him cape cause Red-a judgement a blaze, ya And Babylon a the youth dem life like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a dem head with razors And now the clock a strike war, don't be amazed Inna dem tryin' to save, saviors
Can we do it? we can do it, we do it!
Boom! Tell dem fe uh draw mi out the world government inna falling out few men survive crawling out Run him colleagues dem sprawling out, nearly dead! Medic haffi him out And give him two tranquilizer fi him out, deh pon base! get no calling out when him hear from the shout last week Him find a new shoes Wife get no news and lately she starting to doubt, she still searching! And the dem bawling out hard not to let it all come out Well it's not to go walk about A slaughterhouse from Baghdad to house She start to arouse sometime she want a She start go out, start beat a darker stout, come out! Working people run out Keep a show last week and no one come out, bombs out! Mi gas tank run out, bombo clatt! The scotch tape just run out, run out! Yuh senses must dumb out, mi a pound round a back deh a gwan sun out Nah out! 'Til the chalice bun out, Nah out! 'Til the malice bun out, a war!
Zimbabwe to wall Blazin' like a burnin' ball, ball, dat no work, in war Sleeping, dat no work..in war Can't jheri curl, in war No and pearl, in war drink weh a serve, in bar Gas wi up yuh nerves, in war wi blood up yuh shirt, in war Can't go up no skirt, in war Now and germs, in war Can't go your sperms, in war Stamina preserve, in war constantly burn, in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red!
If you cannot do it, if you are not to do it, then you will die. You of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do what other men have other nations have done, what other races have done Then you shall die.
See it deh know the going up in vapors And propaganda spreading the Sunday papers not even superman coulda save you with him cape judgement a blaze, blaze ya And Babylon a gamble the youth dem like racehorse And gi dem a uniform and a shave dem head razors And now the clock a strike war, be amazed 'cause Inna dem churches to save, saviors
Hey, now wi fore sacrifice enough Dem blood sweat and tears run syrup Any day a revolution might erupt, and the over Kingston lighting up For the new rising up, of youths now a days weh dem sighting up And through reasoning dem up, Searching for the and the sign is us, for the truth all you find is us, Searching for the troops still is us, The almighty we recruit and we from the root We build like roach building Weh can't done, Rastafari' design me tuff If a the fight for sign me up Cause you can't blind me up Soldiers and police dem wising up, realizing no more right than us Realizing there's no use us Realizing their opening their eyes to see the same life as us So we nah tek nor smiling up Cause the temper tantrum boiling up, And who alling the shots and nah bust the mind of the young, bring down
Bear famine, no nah fall from London to Dadeland mall All the son of the bawl, institute of the church in war Preaching and war Practice and war Teaching and dem war Instigating and war Always alert in war Cause man will out a swerving car Now and birds in war And the freaks and in war And the straight and in war and reverse in war Red, it red, it red, it red, it red
If you do it, if you are not prepared to do it, then you will die. You of cowards, you race of imbeciles, you race of good for nothings If you cannot do what men have done What other nations have done, what other races have Then you yourself die.